iWay Software Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant in New Analyst Report on Data Integration

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 15, 2007) - iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, today announced that Gartner has placed the company in the Visionaries Quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007" report.

According to the Gartner report, "in order to emphasize the need to address a range of data delivery styles, metadata management strength, and other technical requirements of enterprise-wide data integration activities, the 'Ability to Execute' criteria in the data-integration tools market includes a strong emphasis on product capabilities." In Gartner's view, "the data integration-tools market comprises vendors that offer software products to enable the construction and implementation of data access and delivery infrastructure for a variety of data integration scenarios. 'Visionaries' are defined as vendors that 'have a solid understanding of the key market trends and a position that is well-aligned with current demand.'"

"The hallmark of iWay Software is its simplicity, which is based on the assembly and configuration of off-the-shelf components. This simplicity enables companies to achieve rapid data integration without lengthy custom coding or expensive systems overhaul, and to implement mission critical applications without costly delays," said J.T. Taylor, CTO of iWay Software. "We think Gartner's placement of iWay in the Visionaries Quadrant validates our vision and strategy for meeting the customer demands of short learning curves, and low-risk, low-cost implementations."

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About iWay Software

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that make service-oriented architectures easy to implement. Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay to reduce custom programming and to solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including BEA, Microsoft, and SAP, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP and CRM systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. Additional message transformation and data integration make iWay a natural integration choice -- standalone or with other middleware.

About Information Builders

Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world's most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders subsidiary iWay Software provides state-of-the-art, multi-purpose integration engines that address all SOA, application, data, and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Together, these products give Information Builders' customers the ability to live up to the company motto: Your business. No barriers.

Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,600 people and has more than 350 business partners.

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